Biography

Jessica Moyer grew up in Old Town, Maine. She studied classics at Kenyon College, taught English at Qinghai Normal University in northwestern China, and got her master's and doctorate in Chinese literature at Yale University.

At Smith, she teaches traditional Chinese literature and classical and modern Chinese.

Her research interests include genre theory, cultural history, literary constructions of gender and spatial practice. Her other interests include hiking, running, cooking and karaoke.